Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in e-learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Burkina Faso to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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